Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-09-16
SAM JONES IN THE WEST.
EXTRACTS FROM A SERMON AT A
MISSOURI CAMP MEETING.
From the Chicago Herald.

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From the Chicago Herald.
PLATTsBURG, Mo-, September
8.-Sam Jones is preaching here
daily to the enormous crowds which
have assembled at the campmeet.
ing. In his sermon last evening
he took up the question Of specula-
ton, and said "You take a
stock exchange in Chicago or
st. Louis, or take it any.
where. There's a company of men,
decent in themselves in many re-
spects, but they have gathered in
that stock exchange day in and
day out, year after year, speculat
ing on the bread of the people,
They have never produced one
single grain of wheat, they have
never produced one single grain Of
corn, they have never produced
one single pound of cotton, they
have never bored in the earth and
brought up a single quart of oil,
and these men gather tLere, day
after day, and speculate upon the
bread and meat of the people OF
this country without ever produc.
ing a grain of wheat, or a grain OF
corn. DO you call that honesty -!
1t my be, according to the code OF
Illinois, but. brother, listen here
When we take up the code of Gods
old book, and it says: "Provide
things honest in the sight OF men,"
does it measure with IT And in
my heart of hearts | want to see
every state in the Union pass law
making it a criminal Offense, a
felony, for men to gather together
and speculate upon the bread and
clothing OF the poor. | want to
see it. | am so glad now and then,
when | read how their men tumble
and fall, and get their very gizzards
mashed out of them. | am so glad
of it. Pm full Of sympathy for all
classes in the world, and l have
tried mighty hard to pull up some
sympathy for these broken specula-
tors, and haven't pumped up an
ounce of it, and 1t amt down there,
| think.
You take the Stock Exchange
in New York city. There was Ives,
| reckon as decent a one as there
was among them. AS long as he
had plenty of money 1t was all
right, but just as soon as it vas
announced that Ives had foundered
they slapped their hands and
shouted, like your ole mothers do
over the conversion of your chill
dren laughter and pounced on
him right away; aud that shows
how heartless they are, and that
it's the dollar they are after, and
that they amt particularly scrupu.
lous about the line they take to get
it. Just like the hyenas. When a
hyena falls under the crack OF a
gun, the other hyenas smell his
blood and pounce on him and eat
him up on the spot. a Methodist
going around with a lottery ticket
| in his pocket. And now you see
the effects of these big gambling
institutions is to close up the little
ones. You see it in Chicago now.
They have made these telegraph
companies pull III their wires from
all these bucket shops. Well,
what's the difference between a
stock exchange and these little
bucket shops7 What's the differ
ence ? It's Just the difference be-
tween a great big dog and a little
dog. These little Offices round
here are barking round and getting
some of our meat aid bread, and
we are going to crush them out
We've got to have the whole thing
to ourselves. That's it. And some
of them are Methodist stewards,
and some Baptist deacons, and
some Presbyterian elders. l don't
believe in Christianity of that sort.
Do you notice that Just as long
as they are successful they are the
purest men in the country, but just
let misfortune overtake them, and
then put them in Jail, and they
prosecute them and they play Wild
with them. Just look at the Fidel-
ity bank officers in Cincinnati. The
cashier is in Jail, and they are try.
ing to make out cases against the
others. But if that Fidelity Bank
had cleared s3,OOO,O00 in that
speculation, that cashier would
have been the biggest man in the
state of Ohio to-day. Amt that
SOL If it is a sin to lose, isn't it
just as much of sin to VIM 1t Is
Just the principle of the darky. He
says:
"Boss, stealing amt no sin; It's
being cotched at it is where the sin
comes in" Laughter.
tell you 1t is our INSCRIPTIONS
love of money that is getting up
all the trouble in this country
Every fellow is after the almighty
dollar, and after it in any particu-
lar way he can get it. sect there
Eli" That's the principle when
there's a dollar involved, and some
of US after the dollars are away
ahead of the Methodist preacher |
heard of some time ago. A fellow
had swallowed half a dollar, and
it Just lodged about his Adams
apple, and he couldn't get it up or
down. He could neither cough nor
swallow. 1t choked him terribly.
They sent for the doctors, and they
came, two OF them, but they
couldn't get the half.dollar up or
down. The fellow was turning
black in the face, when one Oh the
doctors said:
sis there a Methodist preacher
near here"
"why,7 they said, sis he going
to die?
"No,n be said, "but if you'll send |
over for the Methodist preacher,
and if be can't get the halfdollar
out of him, then he's gone case;
that's all | know" Great laugh
ter.
l tell you, my brethren, it is
getting mighty near down to that
when we church members are rae.